One participant shared how she likes to space out appointments and consciously give herself enough time between client commitments. Yet even with all these careful calculations she said: “Sometimes I get completely booked up and wonder what the heck happened!”

There is a word in Buddhism called Tathata which is translated as “thusness” or “suchness”. It means we can look at something and say “that is the way things are” without freaking out trying to add judgment of good/bad, right/wrong, or suffer needlessly about it.

When it comes to how to navigate each day in business, there are simply some things that just ARE. You will experience:

Uncertainty

Fear

A Chaotic Out of Control Feeling

Overwhelm

And a million others.

You can choose to be swept away and derailed by them, or accept them as “the way things are”.

Acceptance doesn’t mean falling into a pool of helpless victim-like passivity though. Instead, it gives you self-awareness and insight into how to make a wise choice about what is most important right now.